[LAU] I just don't know Jack anymore.

Philipp Überbacher hollunder at lavabit.com
Sun Jun 6 20:05:32 UTC 2010


Excerpts from Ken Restivo's message of 2010-06-06 21:53:10 +0200:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:17:37PM -0500, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 6 Jun 2010, Ken Restivo wrote:
> >
> >> Jack/Ardour's allergy to distributions in general (and Debian in 
> >> particular) has made this harder to manage. If I could go "sudo apt-get 
> >> install jack-flavor-of-the-month" and it switches over, then go "sudo 
> >> apt-get install jackd-original" to switch back, then it's no problemo.
> >
> > Jack+Debian:  This situation will be improving.  Probably won't be in 
> > time for squeeze, though.  Not a simple problem to fix, though... because 
> > applications have to link to /something/ -- and the library follows the 
> > jackd implementation.
> >
> 
> Wait, what? All the apps have to be recompiled in order to switch jack implementations?
> 
> If that's the case, then having multiple jack implementations out there is just short of insane.
> 
> -ken

I switched between tschack, jack1 and jack2 without problems. Not sure
there are potential problems, but I didn't experience any.
-- 
Regards,
Philipp

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